If you watched CNN and MSNBC last week, you might have thought Fox News’ Tucker Carlson painted the 2021 Capitol riot as a harmless peace parade, with a minotaur as its patriotic grand marshal. But Carlson said nothing of the sort. (That’s how former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin described the deadly anarchy that gripped her city in the summer of 2020.)
Last Monday and Tuesday night, Carlson’s program aired new surveillance footage of the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 riot that undermined the left’s narrative of a “deadly insurrection.” Contrary to critics’ claims that Carlson entirely glossed over the riot, he showed viewers graphic scenes of the turmoil that legacy outlets and Democrats on the Jan. 6 Committee had endlessly played for Americans.
“These are the pictures you’ve seen of Jan. 6,” Carlson said. “But it turns out there’s quite a bit of video you haven’t seen. And that video tells a very different story about what happened on Jan. 6.”
Carlson’s team reviewed more than 40,000 hours of security footage kept under seal by the Democrats’ House majority. The network was given access to the Capitol surveillance tapes by new Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Last week, Carlson published the findings.
‘QAnon Shaman’ Was VIP Guest of Capitol Police
Footage from the Jan. 6 surveillance tapes show that Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” who quickly became the face of the pro-Trump “insurrection,” was escorted around the complex by Capitol Police. Officers are seen guiding Chansley to
